Let’s start here: The Browns are viable Super Bowl contenders today and just might be the best team in the AFC.

Whew.

This is more than a trade. This is more than acquiring the most talented receiver this franchise has ever employed. This is about restoring hope and dignity to a fan base that has endured so much pain, so many restarts, so many losses and so much Hue Jackson.

All of that is gone now. John Dorsey and Baker Mayfield bandaged those open wounds last year. It was clear by November these are not the same old Browns. This deal for Odell Beckham Jr. is so stunning because it was absolutely the right move to make at absolutely the right time to make it and rarely does that ever actually happen.

Have a franchise quarterback? Surround him with elite playmakers. Makes sense, right? It makes so much sense that it’s exactly what the Browns are doing. They’re acting like grown-ups and running the franchise like adults. Between cap space and...